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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Western Roman Empire fell in 476 CE.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Jimmy Carter was the longest-lived president in United States history, reaching age 100 before his death in 2024.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Julius Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon in 49 BCE triggered a Roman civil war.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Warts in children often resolve without treatment.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Maternal polycystic ovary syndrome is linked to a higher risk of autism in children.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Methane emissions cause global warming through the greenhouse effect.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Atlantis was a fictional island invented by Plato as an allegory, not a real historical place.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are on course to collide in about 4.5 billion years.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Andromeda galaxy is visible to the naked eye from Earth under dark skies.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Marco Polo traveled to China in the thirteenth century.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A genus of arachnids is named after Abaddon the Despoiler, a villain from the Warhammer 40,000 setting.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Kratom has been associated with serious adverse effects including seizures and deaths, and the US FDA has warned consumers against using it.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, was a descendant of Timur on his father's side and of Genghis Khan on his mother's side.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Kaliningrad Oblast became Soviet territory after World War II and remains part of Russia.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Olivia Dean has won a Grammy Award.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Kaliningrad became Russian territory when the Soviet Union annexed it from Germany after the Second World War.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Kaliningrad was known as Konigsberg until it was renamed in 1946 after the Soviet Union took control of the area following World War II.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A September 2025 executive order authorized the Department of Defense to use 'Department of War' as a secondary title.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The US Supreme Court decided Miranda v. Arizona in 1966, requiring warnings about the right to silence and to counsel before custodial police interrogation.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The League of Nations failed to prevent World War II.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Battle of Waterloo was Napoleon's final defeat.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons in the war on Ukraine.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that World War II began in 1939.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Peter Medawar proposed the mutation accumulation hypothesis in 1952.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The shower curtain effect, where the curtain billows inward, is caused by a pressure drop from airflow around the shower stream.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Great Wall of China is about 13,000 miles long.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward policies caused the Chinese famine of 1959 to 1961.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Wool retains its insulating warmth when wet better than cotton does.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that World War One caused the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Carpal tunnel syndrome causes numbness in the hand.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide from human activity causes global warming.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Vietnam War lasted about twenty years, from 1955 to 1975.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Argentina's GDP per capita was among the highest in the world in the early 20th century and fell substantially relative to the United States over the following decades.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Many historians now describe the end of the Western Roman Empire as a gradual transformation rather than a sudden collapse.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Mexico's NOM-051 standard requires front-of-package warning labels on foods with excess sugar, calories, sodium, or saturated fat, and the labeling requirement took effect in October 2020.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In Egyptian mythology, Ra sent Sekhmet to destroy humanity, and a flood of beer stopped her.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ancient Romans had public toilets.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Mars is the god of war and an agricultural guardian in ancient Roman religion and mythology.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that World War I was a global conflict with fighting on multiple continents.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Anthropodermic bibliopegy, the practice of binding books in human skin, dates back to at least the 17th century.?
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